Circular economy principles as a basis for a sustainability management theory: A systems thinking and moral imagination approach
dc.contributor.author | De Angelis, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Ianulardo, G | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-06T13:05:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-03-05 | |
dc.date.updated | 2024-03-06T10:18:00Z | |
dc.description.abstract | To enable corporations to bring about more responsible business practices, changes in the wider system within which businesses operate – including the mental models through which sustainability is understood in the management field – are necessary. Drawing on functioning principles in natural ecosystems – as embodied in circular economy thinking – this conceptual article proposes some constructs to inform the development of a sustainability management theory. We show that the potential for the circular economy to provide a sounder basis to sustainable management theory rests on its capacity to propose a socio-eco-systemic framework, which overcomes the separation between man and nature and is isomorphic to the conception proposed by the emerging complexity paradigm. Also, we show that, by imagining a new cognitive framework and evaluating the current linear model and the alternative circular model from a moral standpoint, the circular economy can be thought of as an exercise in moral imagination. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 5 March 2024 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3730 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/135492 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-2286-4817 (Ianulardo, Giancarlo) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2024 The Authors. Business Strategy and The Environment published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Circular Economy | en_GB |
dc.subject | Moral Imagination | en_GB |
dc.subject | Nature Principles | en_GB |
dc.subject | Sustainability Management Theory | en_GB |
dc.subject | Systems Thinking | en_GB |
dc.title | Circular economy principles as a basis for a sustainability management theory: A systems thinking and moral imagination approach | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2024-03-06T13:05:45Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0964-4733 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Wiley via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1099-0836 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Business Strategy and the Environment | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2024-02-13 | |
dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2023-09-14 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2024-03-05 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2024-03-06T10:18:07Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2024-03-06T13:05:48Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2024-03-05 |
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